ISSN:
1745-8927
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
The senses & society
Publ. der Quelle:
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 12, No. 1 (2017), p. 35
DDC:
390
Abstract:
Frogmore Paper Mill is a kind of time machine that allows historians of technology and the senses to study the mechanized paper-making as it was done one hundred years ago. Before the introduction of instrumentation and automatic process control, paper-making depended profoundly on the embodied skills of the workers. This article will focus on the sensory knowledge and skills required for monitoring and controlling old machinery. Investigating skills-in-use will help to unravel the close link between sensing and acting to keep a continuous production process stable and running. Paper-makers would shift intuitively between different senses and sensory modes of monitoring and diagnosing sensory tell-tales to balance the production process. The importance of sensory knowledge and embodied skills also shaped paper-makers' self-perception and professional ethos. The article will examine the impact of new process control technology on the crucial role of sensory skills for the paper-makers' individual and collective identities.
Note:
Copyright: © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group 2017
DOI:
10.1080/17458927.2016.1268819
URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17458927.2016.1268819
